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Eritrea

Population: 3.5m
GDP: $1.98bn
Debt: 260.4% of GDP (2024)

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How Abiy’s march north could ignite the Horn

As the federal government masses troops along Tigray’s borders, the prime minister is weighing his most perilous gamble yet

As much of the world focused on the United States-Israeli war with Iran this month, Ethiopian army convoys carrying heavy weapons were filmed moving north in broad daylight....


The fight for the Red Sea escalates

Commercial interests, naval ambitions and shifting alliances are raising the risk of war – as regional states pick sides

Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has repeatedly insisted that Ethiopia must secure direct access to the Red Sea. In his October address to parliament, he called it ‘inevitable’, citing...


Tigray’s widening schisms are threatening regional security

The leaders in Addis Ababa and Asmara are picking sides in Tigray and could break apart the 2022 peace deal

Persistent fears of renewed large-scale war in northern Ethiopia stem from the failings of the Pretoria peace agreement – radical in ambition, limited in scope. In 2022, Prime...


Former enemies unite to take on Abiy Ahmed

Eritrea and the ruling party in Tigray forge an unlikely alliance against Addis Ababa

Never short of self-belief, Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed faces the most serious challenge yet to his balancing of regional and national interests – Eritrean and Tigrayan leaders,...


Tigray’s political fight sounds alarm

Unresolved border disputes with Asmara and internal divisions in Ethiopia are driving the region to the brink

A schism in the Tigray regional authority has erupted into clashes in several towns and could draw in Eritrea and Ethiopia’s federal government, maybe others, into a devastating...


 A rare ruling party congress

There are indications Eritrea’s secretive president Issayas Afewerki is planning a rare congress of the country’s only legal party – the People’s Front for Democracy and Justice (PFDJ).


Tentative steps towards peace

The reluctance of some to negotiate, tricky problems between allies, and arm-twisting from the west make for a complex negotiating picture

The fledgling peace process between the Ethiopian federal government and the Tigrayan People's Liberation Front has evolved from a mere cessation of hostilities agreed in Pretoria on 2...


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